G3120 – malakos – μαλακός – effeminate, soft

• Old Testament Hebrew
• New Testament Greek

Strong’s ID:

G3120

Greek Word:

μαλακός

Transliteration:

malakos

Pronunciation:

mal-ak-os’

Part of Speech:

adjective

Usage Count:

4

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Find “malakos” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of uncertain affinity; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite:—effeminate, soft.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) soft, soft to the touch
2) metaphorically in a bad sense
2a) effeminate
2a1) of a catamite
2a2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
2a3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
2a4) of a male prostitute

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.

• G3119 – malakia – μαλακία

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• G3121 – Maleleel – Μαλελεήλ